Subject: Printing from Pine

From: William Barker <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 8 Jan 97 14:28:19 -0800

In order to print out a copy of a message I am sending
someone from Pine I have been in the habit of sending myself
a copy & then printing it out. Is there some way I can print
out a message before I send it off?

TIA,

bb

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From: Edward M Greshko <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 9 Jan 1997 07:41:32 +0800 (GMT)

> out a message before I send it off?

	This "ugly" but should work.

1.	When you are finished composing, use ctrl-O to Postpone.
2.	Change to the postpone folder.
3.	V(iew) the message you want to print.
4.	Y(int) the message.

	You can they type c(ompose) to resume and then (of course)
ctrl-x to send.....

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From: Gregor J Jones <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 9 Jan 1997 10:59:14 -0500 (EST)

Perhaps it might be a little less "ugly" to make sure that mail sent is
being saved to folders, and then print from those. I realize this means
that it can only be printed after sending, rather than before.

On Thu, 9 Jan 1997, Edward M Greshko wrote:

 | On Wed, 8 Jan 1997, William Barker wrote:
 | 
 | > In order to print out a copy of a message I am sending
 | > someone from Pine I have been in the habit of sending myself
 | > a copy & then printing it out. Is there some way I can print
 | > out a message before I send it off?
 | 
 | 	This "ugly" but should work.
 | 
 | 1.	When you are finished composing, use ctrl-O to Postpone.
 | 2.	Change to the postpone folder.
 | 3.	V(iew) the message you want to print.
 | 4.	Y(int) the message.
 | 
 | 	You can they type c(ompose) to resume and then (of course)
 | ctrl-x to send.....
 | 
 | 
 | -- 
 | Edward M. Greshko                  Technical Manager, Electronic Commerce
 |                                    Control Data Asia/Pacific Region
 | Voice: +886-2-715-2222 x287        6/F, 131 Nanking East Road, Section 3
 | FAX  : +886-2-712-9197             Taipei, Taiwan R.O.C
 | 
 | 
 | 

Yours

Gregor
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Department of Physiology                               617-262-8205 (Home)
Boston University School of Medicine              Fax: 617-638-4273
Boston MA 02118

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From: [email-masked] (Sylvain Robitaille)
Date: 13 Jan 1997 04:39:53 GMT

>out a message before I send it off?

On a Unix system, you could set an alternate editor, (vi, for example),
then when you're ready to print, invoke the alternate editor with the ^_
command, and print from there.

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From: Marco De la Cruz <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 16:33:00 GMT

> >out a message before I send it off?

It seems the "enable-unix-pipe-cmd" under UNIX might do it...

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From: [email-masked] ()
Date: 16 Jan 1997 02:56:04 GMT

On a similar note:
Our ISP uses PINE for their LYNX server mail.
When I started on this server, I was told that the prYnt command would
only print on a printer connected to the network server, NOT the users
personal computer.

Now that I am a helpdesk volunteer, I have fielded many question from
people who say one of two things:
How can I print my email, or
I used to be able to use the Y command to print my email, and now I
cannot.

I could never print MY mail, because at the time, my printer driver was
set for my modem for faxes, and since my modem was in use dialing into my
ISP, I couldn't print, BUT, my sisters computer printed email with no
problem, but my brother's computer would print part of a long message,
then get all garbled, then print more.

I have asked our servers resident PINE expert, but he does not deem it
worthy to answer apparently, since it was about a month ago and I still
have not heard from him, and I have written washington U's pine support
people, who, probably because of the volume of email, have not had time to
answer, but refered me to their webpage, which contained no useful
information to this question.

So, as a last resort, I now turn to the good people of the PINE usegroup.
What is it on PINE or on your system, that will allow you to unerringly
print email off your own printer connected to a server through a dialup
account?

I REALLY would like to be able to tell the users SOMETHING other than, I
don't know, you shouldn't be able to do it anyway!

TIA.

Steve Thorne

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From: Terry Gray <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 11:00:01 -0800 (PST)

On the Pine web page at 
     www.washington.edu/pine
there is a section titled "Additional Resources", and the first link
under that is "Questions and answers about Pine..."

Following that link, you'll see a section called "Usage Questions" and 
under that, a link labelled "Why doesn't 'attached-to-ansi' printing
work?"

This should help.  The meta-answer is that: you can configure Pine so that
"Y" attempts to print via any of several mechanisms.  One of those is
"attached-to-ansi" printing, which attempts to tell your PC/Mac
communications software to use a locally attached printer.  This only
works if the PC or Mac comm software understands ansi printer escape
sequences.  Alas, many comm or telnet programs do not (including the
Microsoft telnet that is bundled with Windows 95).

Hope this helps...

-teg

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From: [email-masked] (Sylvain Robitaille)
Date: 13 Jan 1997 04:39:53 GMT

Barometer, n.:

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From: [email-masked] (Kathy Bilton)
Date: 17 Jan 1997 14:42:35 GMT

Terry Gray ([email-masked]) wrote:
: works if the PC or Mac comm software understands ansi printer escape
: sequences.  Alas, many comm or telnet programs do not (including the
: Microsoft telnet that is bundled with Windows 95).

The CRT telnet program available at http://www.vandyke.com was recommended
to me the other day when I posted a q. on my local newsgroup regarding
printing from Pine via a telnet connection.  I haven't tried it yet. 

I have had no problem printing from Pine with the Y command using dialup
shell account - and Procomm Plus.  Can also print from dialup freenet-like
account using same setup,  though I have heard others report the problem
of the full message not being printed in the case of a long message, as
was mentioned in another post. (But I don't recall what software they were
using.)

--Kathy

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